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...head. The theft was discovered eleven years later when Haydn's remains were disinterred and buried more imposingly in the neighboring town of Eisenstadt. Pressed by the police, the skull-collectors delivered up a skull which was promptly attached to the rest of Haydn's skeleton and reburied. But the skull thus surrendered was not Haydn...
...skeleton is in stratified clay of an ancient glacial lake. This poor girl, whose teeth are quite projecting, was drowned in the waters of this lake over 20,000,000 years ago. A dagger is beside her body. This may be the first great American tragedy...
...comeuppance delivered by the Mexican Government to His Majesty's Government three weeks ago. when Mexico jibed that even great powers like Britain were behind in payment of debts, dragged the skeleton of Britain's $4,000,000,000 War debt to the U. S. out of its seven-year closet. Last week. 37-year-old Conservative M.P. Robert John Graham Boothby, who five months ago accused President Roosevelt of precipitating the current stock-market decline, appealed to the Commons to send a "really authoritative mission" to Washington to negotiate a War debt settlement, "if necessary to restore...
...Azalea Special. In Charleston, as the guests of the city, they visited the Navy yards, rubbered at beauty queens, went to a ball. At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand. . . . But that does not take away my love and affection for this lady...
Died, Cora T. Hebner, 55, famed polyandrist (five husbands), wife of Polygamist Will Hebner (19 wives); by her own hand (poison); in a Pocahontas, Ark., jail where she was being held for the murder of a man (presumably Will Hebner) whose skeleton neighbors discovered in her cellar (TIME, April 18). She left a note saying: "I did not kill Will Hebner. He brought me the poison with which I killed myself. . . . I'll rob you of any further fun and cheat the natives out of a Roman holiday...